Opening Skinners Box : Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

Lauren Slater

Lauren Slater (born March 21, 1963) is an American psychotherapist and writer. She is the author of nine books, including Welcome To My Country (1996), Prozac Diary (1998), and Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir (2000). Her 2004 book Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century, a description of psychology experiments "narrated as stories,"[2] has drawn both praise and criticism. Criticism has focused on Slater's research methods and on the extent to which some of the experiences she describes may have been fictionalized. The Village Voice called her "the closest thing we have to a psychiatric disorder."Slater graduated in 1985 from Brandeis University.[4] Slater was a 2002–2003 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5] Slater and her partner Anna-Sylvan Jaffe own and live on an 80-acre farm in Fitchburg, Massachusetts that they call "Amarante Farms".[6] https://www.bizapedia.com/ma/amarante-farms-llc.html After the birth of her daughter, Slater wrote her memoir Love Works Like This,[7] to chronicle the decisions she made related to her psychiatric illness and her pregnancy. In a 2003 BBC Woman's Hour radio interview,[8] and in a 2005 article in Child Magazine,[9] Slater spoke about depression during pregnancy and the risks to the woman and her baby